AZERBAIJAN RUINS PACE MISSIONARY VISIT
Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Aug 31 2007
Armenia
As we know PACE missionary visit to the region, headed by the member of
British Parliament O’Hara has been canceled. This is how NKR permanent
representative in Armenia Karlen Avetisyan commented on this situation.
"First of all I must underscore that solicitude towards cultural
heritage and historical monuments has always been part of NKR state
policy. No matter what culture it concerns. The evidence to what has
been said is the reconstruction of the mosque in Shushy.
That is why both NKR and RA authorities approved the idea of PACE
missionary visit to the region. NKR authorities also hoped that
during the monitoring the delegation would give assessments to the
vandalism committed in NKR regions and other zones that used to be
Armenian populated.
In our view, being well conscious of the real situation that is to say
the fact that the annihilation of historical monuments and cultural
heritage of Old Jugha will be observed as devastating by PACE mission,
Azerbaijan ruined the visit."